What has started as a place to archive my cossacks files and information, so I could easier share them with other people, has gotten a bit out of hand.

More then 90 000 hits on the site in the past year and over 500 registered members is more then what I thought off when I started this project. For those interested in more boring details, you can always check on the site statistics.

To ensure continuation and strenghten the team, I would also like to
take the opportunity to introduce a new moderator for the Cossacks I
forum: Cichor.
He has been here from nearly the start of the site and has proven
himself usefull. I also want to thank our other moderator Daddio for everything he has done so far for the site. It's appreciated

I will also be looking for one more additional moderator for the Cossacks II forum. If someone is interested or you feel like you can contribute in any other way to the site, please contact me trough private message.

So, what can you expect this year from me?

I will keep up uploading content to the site that is still archived on
my computer and update content on the various site pages.

Meanwhile I will continue working on my modification for Cossacks II so if anyone has good suggestions, don't hesitate to speak up.

With cdv (publisher) beeing in troubled waters at the moment, it is unsure at this point in time what will happen to the company in Germany, but it has no consequence for the USA division of the company. They will have their own forums soon and should be able to survive on their own.

For the rest I will try to keep contact with GSC for help and support and ofcourse about what they have in store for us in the next years.

Because of the particular nature of how the ucoz site system works ( more registered members = more free webspace = more space to upload and share files) I will continue to ask people to log in before they can download. Once I have enough free space then I will no longer ask for loggin in to be able to download files. Forum will ofcourse still require a login to avoid too much spam on the site.

If you have specific suggestions towards the site or anything else that you think that might be usefull, just leave a message in the forum.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed in the past year, please keep on doing so the games may live for a couple more years.

Since over a week now, the GameSpy server for Cossacks I seems to be down.

In the meantime if you are on 1.35 ( Back to war), you can play over the GSC Server for which you need a key. If you do not have a key for this server you can obtain one @ http://www.americanconquest.de/key/english.php (It's for AC, but it works for Cossacks)

For those that are on 1.15 & 1.30 ( European War & The Art Of War) you can use GameRanger to set up games and play. Evidently those with 1.35 can use GameRanger aswell.

Hopefully this downtime is temporary and not permanent. For more information or if you have problems or questions ,leave a message in the forum.

For those that are having problems hosting games on GameSpy or when the Servers are just down for Cossacks I & II, there is an nice and easy to use alternative: GameRanger. You can read more about it in the Forum.

Everyone that is registered and has a good link about Cossacks I / AC / Cossacks II can submit his/her own link now. Any submissions that lead to unadvertised / irrelevant links will be removed and the user's powers revoked indefinetely.